EDIT: Mike at jetsrus asks us to hold off on emailing him about the jets until he gets them in his hands and can measure them. I'll keep the group posted!
Hey PJ, I have not removed the pilot jets yet. I give them a little try every so often, and then spray some more PB Blaster on them. I have to dig around to see if I have a better screwdriver here at work to try. The rebuild kits aren't here yet, so I figure there's no rush, and hurrying will only end up with me trying to melt broken brass out of the jet hole with a torch. Heh, "jet hole." I'm thinking heat may be the answer, but I haven't decided if I should just put them in the oven at 200F for a while (after I wash them out with brake cleaner or alcohol so I don't set the PB or WD40 in them alight!
) or to use the torch on "low."
Good news on the jet front - I've been talking with Mike at http://www.jetsrus.com, and he's actually got a run of "short" Keihin coming in about two weeks or so. I measure my good jet at 7mm, so we'll see what length the ones he gets in are. That could be all kinds of good for CB360 pilots, as tuning would become easier. If the "short" jets don't work, I'll very carefully modify the "long" #68 jet as Trek described.
Trek, I'm sticking with stock air filters and fueling for now. I think it's best I try to get the thing running with stock settings as a baseline given my lack of experience tuning these carbs and the general unknown nature of the rest of the bike. I can at least try to control for this variable!
Mydlyfkryzis, I'm going to give the "bleeder as a zerk" idea a try this weekend. Man, that is a funky sliding caliper setup, and I have worked on a lot of funky caliper setups in my day! Kinda neat in its simplicity though! I figure cleaning grease out of the caliper will be the least of my worries, hah!
Another "fix" in the works will be the Kohler regulator/rectifier upgrade. I'm not even going to bother with the 36 year old charging bits other than the stator. $25-30 for a modern r/r seems like a deal to me! I used a Ford truck regulator and two Radio Shack bridge rectifiers on the '79 CB650 (which is an "alternator" setup with rather than a "generator") and was very pleased with how well that system worked out, so I figure I'll take a shot at bringing this bike's electricals up to date as well. I might even get some Hall effect sensors and go crazy building a solid state ignition trigger system.
I do need an ignition switch (well not really "need", but eventually it would be nice to be able to use a key) and the headlight/turn signal/headlight bracket/front Honda badge assembly. It's missing, and the guy I bought it from never had it, sadly. Do any of you fine folks have those parts in your spares pile? I have some CB350 parts, '75 CB750 carbs (minus floats and jets), '77-78 CB750 carb bits, and '79-80 CB650 carb bits for trade in addition to pieces of paper with presidents on them.